豬彈筆記 [EN] Should Humans Eat Meat?

週末到今天都是大忙錄,但是想到學習不能等,還是努力讓自己補足一點一滴的語言能力吧!!!

節錄這篇在探討人是否該吃肉的文章(好嚴肅的題目啊!!!)算是支持食肉派論點的文章.首先點出人類消化系統的特徵跟草食動物大相逕庭,人類在消化肉的時候對身體成長有正面的影響,且從古至今人主要用來果腹的都是肉....;第二段則點出一些反面的論點,像是為了生產肉帶來的成本還有對環境的影響~蠻有趣的ㄧ篇文章,但是看一看發現單字可能太專門,所以就分享兩小段當作吸收不同觀點嚕!

Source: Scienctific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=should-humans-eat-meat-excerpt

There is no doubt that human evolution has been linked to meat in many fundamental ways. Our digestive tract is not one of obligatory herbivores; our enzymes evolved to digest meat whose consumption aided higher encephalization and better physical growth. 


Cooperative hunting promoted the development of language and  socialization; the evolution of Old World societies was, to a significant extent, based on domestication of animals; in traditional societies, meat eating, more than the consumption of any other category of foodstuffs, has led to fascinating preferences, bans and diverse foodways; and modern Western agricultures are obviously heavily meat-oriented. In nutritional terms, the links range from satiety afforded by eating fatty megaherbivores to meat as a prestige food throughout the millennia of preindustrial history to high-quality protein supplied by mass-scale production of red meat and poultry in affluent economies.

But is it possible to come up with a comprehensive appraisal in order to contrast the positive effects of meat consumption with the negative consequences of meat production and to answer a simple question: are the benefits (health and otherwise) of eating meat greater than the undesirable cost, multitude of environmental burdens in particular, of producing it?
  
Key words and Phrases

1.digestive tract 消化道  *tract:大片土地 
2.herbivore:草食動物 
3.enzyme:酵素
4.encephalization:腦體重比增加化
5.satiety:飽足,果腹 
6.millennia:millennium的複數,千年期
7.appraisal:評價
8.multitude of:很多